Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-01
NEWS NOTES.

George Moss has been convicted in the
United States court at Fort Smith, Arkansas,
of the murder of George Toff in Indian
Territory last November. OF the three 9TH
er persons concerned in the crime two were
lynched and the other died in jail from the
result of wounds received while trying to
escape.
The trial of Fred Munchrath, Jr., at Sioux
City, Iowa, for the murder of Rev. George
Haddock, resulted in a verdict of guilty of
manslaughter, the extreme penalty of which
twenty hours. Sentence will be pronounced
September &c, unless new trial is granted.
Texas highwaymen have keen sense of
the humorous. Four of them, belonging to
the Mancha gang of robbers, visited store
fifteen miles from New Braunfels, forced
the man in charge to surrender all the cash
on hand, at the point of the bayonet, and
then compelled him to dance a highland
fling for their amusement. The robbers
finally took their departure, hotly pursued
by posse of citizens.
The London Times thinks that it sees in
the parade of the Grand Army veterans at
Philadelphia before a democratic president
convincing proof of the success of the
authors of the union in devising vigorous
and abiding compact"
Mr.. William Walter Phelps says Mr..
Blaine does not want the presidential
nomination in 1888, and that his friends are
doing nothing to secure it for him. All the
same, Mr.. Phelps is certain Blaine will be
nominated.
Captain T. B. Mullett, of the revenue ma
rire service who killed himself at San Fran
cisco, was a brother of the ex- supervising
architect of the treasury, and had been
suffering from acute melanchOlia for some
time.
A statement of the Tonquin finances sub
mitted by the French minister of foreign
affairs, shows a deficit of 2C,000, 900 francs.
The government has decided 10 postpone the
construction of railways in Tonquin in
definitely.
BENJAMIN E. Hopkins, late assistant
cashier of the Fidelity bank of Cincinnati,
declares that he knew nothing whatever of
the banks condition until the day before it
closed its doors. He lays all the RESPONSE
bility upon Harper. Hopkins is still in Jail.
The anniversary of the entry of the Italian
troops into Rome was celebrated in that city
by professions, banquets, and a general illu-
mination. A statue to RienZi, ''the last of
the tribunes," was unveiled.
The Swiss and Italian governments will
each contribute $4,000, 900 francs toward the
construction of tunnel through the Sim
plon mountain.
The porte, in a circular to the p overs, pro-
poses that generals chosen by Turkey and
Russia be sent to Bulgaria to restore order
according to the terms of the Berlin treaty.
A sixteen year-old son of M. Schnaebeles,
the French cOmmlsSary arrested by German
officers at Pagny -sur- Moselle last April,
went on to German territory and affixed the
French tricolor, with reasonable placard,
to tree on the highway. The young man
is now under arrest at Metz.
w. d. Ball, United States attorney for
Alaska, died on shipboard while en- route to
Seattle, Washington territory.
All the injunction proceedings in the Red
River railway matter have been withdrawn
except that instituted in behalf of the Do
mlnlon government.
Congressman Morrow, of California, has
forwarded to the state department an account
of the murder of Lem Baldwin by Mexican
bandits in Durango. Baldwin was the SUI
perintendent of mines in that state owned
by an American company. Mr.. Morrow de-
clares that it is necessary for the United
States government to take prompt measures
for the protection of the lives and property
of American citizens in Mexico.
E. S. Wheeler, the New Haven, Connecti-
cut iron merchant, who failed for So, 600, COO,
with assets of $150,OOO, has been arrested for
fraud.
The strike in the Lehigh coal region,
which embraces twenty-five thousand men,
threatens to be a prolonged one, although it
is said that there are signs of weakening on
the part of some of the operators.
Horace Allen, aged SO, granddaughter of
Ethan Allen, has distinguished himself by
propelling wheelbarrow from Delaware,
Ohio, to Albany New York, distance of
6S5 miles.
Immense damage was inflicted upon crops
by the recent floods in Arizona.
1t is claimed at the City of Mexico that the
presence of large Mexican force on the
Guatemalan frontier is due to the representa-
tions of the authorities of Guatemala that
many citizens of that country had taken up
quarters on the Mexican side of the line and
were plotting against their own government.
Madam Otto Goldschmidt Jenny Lind)
is dangerously i'll at London.